Written by readers of the Cygnus Review, this is a space to explore the experiences and insights of members of the Cygnus Community. Here, you'll discover articles on all things esoteric - from Shamanism to Psychology.

nature

I‘m writing to you through the gentle haze of golden white sunshine. My hilltop house faces south and, when the weather allows it, the winter sun peeks through the window at me in the afternoons. It doesn’t happen often just recently but it’s as if the clouds have parted especially...

The month of February comes from the Latin februare, which means to purify. Sometimes it is a difficult time when we need to face residues of untransformed issues left over from the passage through the dark time of the year. This aspect can be seen in the carnival tradition of...

In 1999, the year the total eclipse of the sun was visible from Cornwall, Tim and I took our then small children to see it. They were awed by the experience. That same holiday we also visited the Lost Gardens of Heligan to see a fantastic collection of plants in...

I have a philosophy. It is to go where I am invited, to walk through open doors rather than push against the ones that are closed, to listen to my intuition to hear the call. Some weeks ago I had an email from a charming American called Meredith. Would I...

If there is one book I wish I had written myself, because it expresses so exactly where I believe our souls are taking us at the moment, it is Claire Thompson’s Mindfulness and the Natural World. The point of our lives In it, Claire asks a question which to me...

Introduction: a description of the talks given through Dr MacDonald-Bayne by Miss I Bagot-Smith In the spring of 1948 a series of talks was given. To those who were chosen to hear them, this was a unique and unforgettable experience. No one who heard them could ever be the same...

Natural creatures, though instinctively shy or timid, are not wildly governed by fears and terrors, as we have been misinformed from our youth up. The ‘reign of terror’ is another of those pet scientific delusions, like the ‘struggle for existence,’ for which there is no basis in nature. Fear in...

Many years ago, when my son was small we lived in a cottage deep in the Somerset countryside. Every day I would put James in a carrier on my back and the two of us, along with our dog, a collie called Blue, would go walking in the nearby woods....